Andy Baio : The Social Graph Is Neither - "we have tasted of the blogroll and the lolcat and found that they were good"

nelson : Maciej on social graph - Ruminations on the complexity of human relationships

cobra libre : Maciej Ceglowski: The Social Graph is Neither - "We have a name for the kind of person who collects a detailed, permanent dossier on everyone they interact with, with the intent of using it to manipulate others for personal advantage -- we call that person a sociopath. And both Google and Facebook have#

Anil : Animated GIFs Triumphant - "If you can make it here...", Jamie Beck, 2011
It's been 84 years since talkies began their march towards dominance over silent film. But while 1.3 billion people in the U.S. bought a ticket for a motion picture with sound last year, I'd estimate that 3.

philgyford : Playable Archaeology: An Interview with the Telehack's Anonymous Creator - Telehack sounds amazing. I always wanted to play a Spectrum game (I forget the name) that simulated hacking, never mind something this huge.

nelson : Telehack interview - Andy gets an interview with the anonymous creator of the retro Internet site

Andy Baio : Playable Archaeology: An Interview with the Telehack's Anonymous Creator - Telehack is the most interesting game I've played in the last year... a game that most users won't realize is a game at all.
It's a tour de force hack — an interactive pastiche of 1980s computer history, tying together public archives of Usenet new

Anil : TMI: Fear, Fukushima and Facts - Thirty-two years ago today, I noticed that things were odd at our pre-school. The teachers had drawn the blinds closed in a few rooms and at least one of the other kids had had his mom pick him up in a big wood-sided station wagon before the day was actua

Simon Willison : Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?
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Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?. Fascinating optimisation tricks by some of the big websites, which violate the RFC governing the TCP slow-start algorithm in order to perform better in the common case.

bmilleare : Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? - Interesting hack by Google and MS on the tcp slow-start algorithm to speed up http responses.

deusx : Up, not North - Automatypewriter - "The Automatypewriter is a typewriter that can type by itself:
It can also detect what’s being typed on it. It can be used to send text to and/or receive text from a computer via USB. It was designed as a platform for playing interactive fiction g

Rod Begbie : Firesheep - This is A Big Deal. Makes stealing session cookies from other computers on your local network as easy as clicking a button. Will be interesting to see how big sites respond. Are we finally going to see HTTPS deployed on all pages? [via] #

Simon Willison : Firesheep
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Firesheep. Oh wow. A Firefox extension that makes sniffing for insecured (non-HTTPS) cookie requests on your current WiFi network and logging in as that person a case of clicking a couple of buttons. Always possible of course, but it’s never been made [via]

cobra libre : firesheep - A proof-of-concept tool that makes HTTP session hijacking over a local network quite easy. E.g., you can use this to steal another person's Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, or Flickr account. I used it to discover that I'm the only one at the office not worki#

Andy Baio : Firesheep, simple session hijacking on public networks for Firefox - the ethics of making it easy for non-techies to spoof Twitter/Facebook/etc accounts is being hotly debated